Research and reports

We study how consumers interact with financial products and services to help identify potential problems in the marketplace and achieve better outcomes for all. Review our reports and analyses to help inform your decisions, policies, and practices. And, see reports that we periodically prepare about the CFPB.

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Staying on track while giving back

This midyear report highlights the problems that student loan borrowers face when seeking to access programs designed to protect people working in public service.

We
follow specific standards for maintaining affirmative employment programs and
take steps to ensure that policies, practices, and procedures are conducted in
an inclusive manner for employees and applicants.

The Office of Minority and Women Inclusion’s Annual Report outlines our initiatives related to building and maintaining a diverse workforce, increasing contracting opportunities for minority and women owned businesses, and assessing the diversity policies and practices of entities regulated by the CFPB.

The
attached report includes CFPB’s activities undertaken pursuant to its EEO
Program, a description of the internal assessments CFPB has conducted to
identify and prevent barriers to employment in the workplace, a plan that sets
forth steps CFPB will take in the future to correct deficiencies or further
improve the equal employment opportunity program, and data capturing the race,
national origin, gender, and disability status of CFPB’s workforce.

We’ve taken important strides over the last year in our efforts to protect consumers from credit discrimination and broaden access to credit, as we identify new fair lending risks and monitor institutions for compliance.

We follow specific standards for maintaining affirmative employment programs and take steps to ensure that policies, practices, and procedures are conducted in an inclusive manner for employees and applicants.